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Geno Smith: "We Control Our Destiny" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Can e now.
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  Speaker 2: You give your coach some advice on being a dad.
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  Speaker 1: Uh?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, well I talked to him. Uh, you know, even
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  Speaker 2: before they had the baby. I talked to him about
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  Speaker 2: like the experience of seeing a child's birth. It's one
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  Speaker 2: of the craziest things I've ever witnessed in my life.
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  Speaker 2: And so, uh, I'm pretty sure you know, it was
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  Speaker 2: a it was a big moment for him, and uh,
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  Speaker 2: you know, really really happy that you know, all things
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  Speaker 2: went well, and you know, really really happy for coach.
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  Speaker 1: Do you know you think successful on three or four
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  Speaker 1: quarterback steaks that you guys have done this year, in
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  Speaker 1: the one that you didn't get maybe a questionable spotting
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  Speaker 1: at San Francisco, you talk about like.
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  Speaker 2: What are the keys to that played working and and
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  Speaker 2: what do you.
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  Speaker 1: Bring to that flight?
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  Speaker 2: Uh? Yeah, I mean quarterback sneak. You know, it's about
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  Speaker 2: who wants some more. You know, there's gonna be pretty
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  Speaker 2: much eleven guys at the line of scrimmage on both sides,
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  Speaker 2: depending on the formation. And you know, obviously you look
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  Speaker 2: for advantageous looks if there's open gaps and stuff stuff
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  Speaker 2: like that, but most importantly, uh, it's just about getting
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  Speaker 2: low and getting the first down.
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  Speaker 1: It's really not like a bunch to it.
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  Speaker 2: You know, you just gotta try to drive those guys
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  Speaker 2: off the ball, you know, try to try and get
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  Speaker 2: the first down the best you can drive your legs.
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  Speaker 1: That's where the weight room comes in.
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  Speaker 2: And you see, uh, you know Philly they do the
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  Speaker 2: touch push, you know, so there's a there's multiple ways
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  Speaker 2: to do it. But yeah, I think it's something that
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  Speaker 2: we can use and continue to use to be successful
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  Speaker 2: in our short yards.
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  Speaker 1: Games all called for you or sometimes you have the
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  Speaker 1: option to find that can't tell you that A good
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  Speaker 1: question though, A good question.
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  Speaker 3: What is the change for your face on team again
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  Speaker 3: in such short succession when.
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  Speaker 1: You play them? I actually like it, man.
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  Speaker 2: I think it's you know, especially the vision opponents, you
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  Speaker 2: get a chance to you know, kind of correct some
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  Speaker 2: of your mistakes and then obviously try to take advantage
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  Speaker 2: of some things you thought went well. You know, going
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  Speaker 2: up against this team, a team that we've saw a bunch.
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  Speaker 2: You know, we know what they're doing, they know what
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  Speaker 2: we're doing. It's about who's going to execute better. And
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  Speaker 2: you know, going up against this team and knowing what's
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  Speaker 2: at stake, you know, having you know a week in
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  Speaker 2: between after that last game. I think for both teams, man,
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  Speaker 2: I know they're gonna be fired up, especially at home,
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  Speaker 2: and I know we're gonna be fired up. Everyone knows
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  Speaker 2: what's at stake. You know, it's a big game because
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  Speaker 2: it's the next game, but also a division game and so, uh,
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  Speaker 2: you know, we're fighting to get into the playoffs. They
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  Speaker 2: are as well, so it should be a great matchup.
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  Speaker 1: You said you like it.
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  Speaker 3: What are the part What do you like about playing
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  Speaker 3: a team this quickly?
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  Speaker 1: Again? Oh?
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  Speaker 2: I mean you know you saw them, you know, two
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  Speaker 2: weeks ago, and like I said, you know, you enjoy
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  Speaker 2: playing football, but you know, you get to go up
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  Speaker 2: against a team you watch film on these guys. You know,
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  Speaker 2: I don't have to watch like hours and hours of
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  Speaker 2: film and you know watch you know, multiple games. It's
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  Speaker 2: really just one game in between. But like I said,
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  Speaker 2: you just know the opponent. Again, it was a great
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  Speaker 2: game I thought in our last game, and you know,
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  Speaker 2: I think it's gonna be even better.
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  Speaker 1: You know in this next one.
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  Speaker 2: The defensive styled up a lot of pressure in the
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  Speaker 2: last few weeks and they've gotten to the quarterback. What
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  Speaker 2: is it about the way they're they're able to rush.
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  Speaker 3: That's giving them success.
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  Speaker 2: Uh yeah, they got great you know blitz packages there.
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  Speaker 2: I believe they're decordinating their head coach work together on that,
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  Speaker 2: and I think they do a great job at you know,
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  Speaker 2: having having multiple ways to give you similar looks. And
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  Speaker 2: you see it on film where they get a lot
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  Speaker 2: of you know, free rushers and uh, you know that's
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  Speaker 2: that's pretty hard to do. You know, teams are scheming
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  Speaker 2: up packages and stuff. But uh, you know, they they
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  Speaker 2: do a great job. They understand, you know, their blitz patterns.
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  Speaker 2: They understand uh, you know the guys who are dropping
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  Speaker 2: the zones where to get to. You know, you can
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  Speaker 2: tell they wrap it a bunch. They let the uh
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  Speaker 2: they let their mic linebacker he kind of quarterbacks the
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  Speaker 2: entire thing.
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  Speaker 1: And uh if if they see you.
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  Speaker 2: Get into a check you know, they'll check out and
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  Speaker 2: uh they feel like, you know, you don't you don't
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  Speaker 2: have an answer, they'll bring the blitz. So it's always
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  Speaker 2: that game of cat and mouse. I enjoy, you know,
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  Speaker 2: that's one of the things I enjoy the most about
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  Speaker 2: playing quarterback. And uh, we'll see what they have for
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  Speaker 2: it's gonna be a different package when we get to
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  Speaker 2: the game. But we just got to prepare, be prepared
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  Speaker 2: to adjust, and uh, you know, go out there and execute,
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  Speaker 2: make the place happen. One of those is that one of.
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  Speaker 1: Those things though, that gets easier if you only saw
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  Speaker 1: them a couple of weeks ago.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, they're gonna have a different blitz.
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  Speaker 3: Package, but maybe you've got a little bit more.
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  Speaker 2: Of their tendencies. Yeah, I wouldn't say it's easier, but
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  Speaker 2: I will say that, Yeah, you get just a second
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  Speaker 2: chance to go against it.
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  Speaker 1: And like I said, it's never easy. Man.
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  Speaker 2: You don't know exactly what they're gonna do. You just
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  Speaker 2: got to look for the tails and try and figure
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  Speaker 2: it out. But I think they do a great job
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  Speaker 2: and like I said, having multiple looks, and they make
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  Speaker 2: it all look the same. Sometimes they're blitting, sometimes they're
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  Speaker 2: dropping them all. You just gotta be prepared and just
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  Speaker 2: know you know where your hot answers are if you
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  Speaker 2: do have hots, and then if you do got to
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  Speaker 2: pick it up if that bring zero, you know, just
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  Speaker 2: be ready to you know, get to a protection or
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  Speaker 2: something like that. But there's always a game of cat
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  Speaker 2: and mouse. They'll have answers, will have answers. That's kind
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  Speaker 2: of how the game goes. They had success rushing on
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  Speaker 2: third down last game, but how much is that you
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  Speaker 2: guys need to be better on third down versus maybe
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  Speaker 2: get to better third down situations so they can't get
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  Speaker 2: pass what's gone?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I thought they did.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, I mean we were about fifty percent on third downs.
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  Speaker 2: I think, you know, I thought for the most part,
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  Speaker 2: our guys held up.
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  Speaker 1: Well.
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  Speaker 2: You know, we had an early injury and so you know,
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  Speaker 2: Christian had to step in and you know, it's never
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  Speaker 2: easy stepping off the sideline and go into a game
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  Speaker 2: like that. But for the most part, like I said,
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  Speaker 2: I thought our guys picked it up.
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  Speaker 1: Well.
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  Speaker 2: I thought Olu did a great job and you know
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  Speaker 2: I did to find things and making the right checks.
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  Speaker 2: And you know, they they're gonna have that's what they do,
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  Speaker 2: you know, that's the that's their thing. They wanted to
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  Speaker 2: get you the third down and uh dial up their
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  Speaker 2: packages and so we just gotta be prepared for him.
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  Speaker 2: There'll be some new looks that we haven't seen. Will
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  Speaker 2: adjust on the sideline if need be, But for the
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  Speaker 2: most part, just trust your rules. You know, me getting
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  Speaker 2: the ball out fast is gonna always help. And then
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  Speaker 2: you know, guys getting too the right spots and and
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  Speaker 2: catching the ball, getting the first downs.
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  Speaker 3: What's the stay in the scame a couple of times,
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  Speaker 3: and I imagine part of that's just being able to
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  Speaker 3: get the separation in the division how closely? How much
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  Speaker 3: do you pay attention to like tiebreakers and all that
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  Speaker 3: stuff and knowing exactly where.
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  Speaker 1: You guys are, And uh, I don't know exactly what
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  Speaker 1: it is.
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  Speaker 2: I know we control our destiny and I think that's
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  Speaker 2: what's most important. You know, we just gotta go out
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  Speaker 2: there and find a way to win. Everything else. You know,
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  Speaker 2: we don't try to think about that, you know, tiebreakers
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  Speaker 2: and such. We know we gotta win out pretty much.
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  Speaker 2: We we've been in playoff mode and so, uh, it's
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  Speaker 2: one one and oh mentality this week and that's really
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  Speaker 2: all that matters. The offensive line is obviously there's been
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  Speaker 2: a lot of people you mentioned the Hulu and for
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  Speaker 2: right tackles expa. Has have you seen any consistency in
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  Speaker 2: that group yet there? Uh, especially with now twe coming
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  Speaker 2: in and and how challenging has it been this year. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I think there's definitely been consistency. You know, big hats
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  Speaker 2: off to to you know, Huff and Nuge and that
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  Speaker 2: entire group for preparing all the guys. And yeah, you
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  Speaker 2: said it, man, w there's been a bunch of guys
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  Speaker 2: who stepped in and stepped up.
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  Speaker 1: But you know, I was, I was very.
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  Speaker 2: Pleased with the way that we ran the ball, especially
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  Speaker 2: the second half of our last game. You know, you
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  Speaker 2: see where those guys are getting a lot of continuity,
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  Speaker 2: and I think a being back is definitely helping out,
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  Speaker 2: helping Towe on that right side. And you know, Olu's
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  Speaker 2: been doing a great job of just you know, being
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  Speaker 2: a steady presence.
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  Speaker 1: In there at center.
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  Speaker 2: And so yeah, we we we know, you know, those
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  Speaker 2: guys who gotta continue to get better. We got a
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  Speaker 2: bunch of young guys up front who were still developing
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  Speaker 2: and still coming into their own. But I thought they
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  Speaker 2: played extremely well the previous game. Gave me protection in
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  Speaker 2: the pocket. And uh, they're only gonna get better. Like
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  Speaker 2: I said, man, the more they j well, the more
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  Speaker 2: they play together, the more they hear the same calls,
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  Speaker 2: the more they can communicate, Uh, the better they'll be
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  Speaker 2: on the game day. You ever ever did.
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  Speaker 3: Best in the NFL and converting short guarded situations through
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  Speaker 3: week five and you've been last since then.
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  Speaker 1: Any any ideas of what things changed.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, we haven't gotten 'em. I mean that's just the
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  Speaker 2: reality of it. The reality of statistics is, you know,
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  Speaker 2: either you get it or you don't. So yeah, when
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  Speaker 2: first couple of weeks we were getting our we were
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  Speaker 2: making it happen, and then recently we've struggled. So Uh,
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  Speaker 2: I believe in the law of averages. I think things
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  Speaker 2: usually kind of shape themselves out, and uh, as long
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  Speaker 2: as we continue to work on it, continue to try
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  Speaker 2: and get better at it. I think that's something that
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  Speaker 2: we definitely need to get better at. And me personally,
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  Speaker 2: I know I can be better in those situations for
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  Speaker 2: our guys, and so uh, you know, we get more opportunities.
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  Speaker 1: That's the best thing about it.
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  Speaker 2: We get more opportunities and we'll see where we rank,
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  Speaker 2: you know after that through t uh.
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  Speaker 1: Twelve games with with Ryan Grebb obviously in that kind
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  Speaker 1: of partnership. I was wondering what you've continued to learn
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  Speaker 1: about him as as this relationships and unfolded and how
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  Speaker 1: that's evolved the d dynamictory.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's uh, again, like you said, it's only been
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  Speaker 2: you know, twelve thirteen weeks of regular season games, and uh,
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  Speaker 2: it's still developing, it's still building. It's still you know,
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  Speaker 2: early in the stages for us. But I'm so happy
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  Speaker 2: with the strides we've made throughout the course of the season.
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  Speaker 2: Also just the you know, our system that we have
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  Speaker 2: in place. I think it's it's really good. I think
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  Speaker 2: we have a lot of answers, and I think he
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  Speaker 2: gives the in quarterback the ability to get to those answers.
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  Speaker 2: He empowers us to to make, you know, plays on
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  Speaker 2: the field and to be the quarterback and be the
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  Speaker 2: coach on the field. And so, you know, Greb and
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  Speaker 2: I we talk every day. We're in the meeting room
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  Speaker 2: every day. We're seeing things the same way. And you know,
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  Speaker 2: the best part about it is that you know, he
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  Speaker 2: understands as a quarterback, it's not always gonna be perfect.
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  Speaker 2: You gotta sometimes you got to just make things happen.
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  Speaker 2: And I think he gives me a lot of grace
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  Speaker 2: with that, and it's allowed me to go out there
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  Speaker 2: and be confident and just continue to play it.
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  Speaker 1: Answers. Excuse me, what does it mean to give a
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  Speaker 1: quarterback answers? What do you mean about that? Uh, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: answers on the field to be able to get to do.
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  Speaker 3: You know when you scramble mode, can you talk about
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  Speaker 3: the defense of patients waiting for that receiver and yet
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  Speaker 3: going back to like you said, getting the ball out quickly,
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  Speaker 3: and the context would be Jackson Smith you're.
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  Speaker 1: Doing with him.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it's just basically when when you're out there,
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  Speaker 2: he just trying to make a play.
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  Speaker 1: There's like a first play.
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  Speaker 2: There's the play, the original play, and then there's a
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  Speaker 2: second play which is unscripted, and so there's always like
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  Speaker 2: a design play. You want to you know, try to
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  Speaker 2: attack a certain coverage. You want to you know, get
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  Speaker 2: the ball in the window or you know, high low
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  Speaker 2: or something like that, and then sometimes the defense does
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  Speaker 2: a great job of covering it. And so I think
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  Speaker 2: we have some guys who are really really good at
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  Speaker 2: extending plays and uh, you know, Tyler Lockett is an
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  Speaker 2: example of a guy who's always gonna find you know,
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  Speaker 2: open window or you know, become friendly to the quarterback
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  Speaker 2: when there's a scrambled situation. DK did it in our
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  Speaker 2: in our first game against Arizona, and I think Jackson's
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  Speaker 2: done it all season. Man, I think our guys do
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  Speaker 2: a great job in the scrambled drill and uh, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: you're saying like, be patient. I mean the main thing
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  Speaker 2: is to get the ball out to the guy. You
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  Speaker 2: don't want to hold the ball back there forever. You
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  Speaker 2: got guys up, you know, protect in front and stuff.
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  Speaker 2: But you know, getting the ball out on time is always.
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  Speaker 2: Getting in rhythm is always, uh you know, our mindset,
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  Speaker 2: and then if we have to adjust on the fly,
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  Speaker 2: I think we've done a good job at that.
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  Speaker 1: I think we continue to work on it and get better.
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  Speaker 3: What did you see when you went back and watch
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  Speaker 3: the goal line sequence there from the third quarter.
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  Speaker 2: Of the Jaskins, Yeah, I thought, uh, we had some opportunities.
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  Speaker 1: Man.
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  Speaker 2: Obviously the one pass to Noah, you know, touch too far,
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  Speaker 2: could have you know, could have been a touchdown. We
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  Speaker 2: could have pretty much ended it right there. But I
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  Speaker 2: think overall, just things that we need to improve on.
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  Speaker 2: It's one guy here, one guy there. And you know,
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  Speaker 2: as as an offense, you know, you got to play
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  Speaker 2: all eleven. Every guy's got to execute for a play
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  Speaker 2: to work. And so if we can just clean up,
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  Speaker 2: you know, some of our stuff down there, I think
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  Speaker 2: we'll be better along lines when a short artist thing
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  Speaker 2: you mentioned, you can personally be better at helping the
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  Speaker 2: team out there, house up just in always man, just
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  Speaker 2: an always. You know, hit hit no on the pass.
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  Speaker 2: I mean that's pretty much simple right there. And uh,
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  Speaker 2: you know we're not talking about this right now, but overall,
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  Speaker 2: just you know, if I can improve on something, I'm gonna,
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  Speaker 2: you know, try and do that. And I think there's
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  Speaker 2: a lot of improvement to be had in that area,
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  Speaker 2: in that situation. So you know, for us, I just
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  Speaker 2: think we gotta me included, We all gotta be better.
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  Speaker 2: And so that's really it for us, man, we just
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  Speaker 2: gotta execute better.
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  Speaker 1: What did you do to gain ten pounds of lean
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  Speaker 1: masts during the season? Working out? While working out? Is
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  Speaker 1: that something you typically do during the season. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I've been four days a week for about twelve
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  Speaker 2: thirteen years now since I've been in the league, four
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  Speaker 2: days a week, So you know, I just think my
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  Speaker 2: diet's gotten better, and then obviously our training staff have
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  Speaker 2: done a great job as well.
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  Speaker 1: Are you doing legs upper body alternate D four days
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  Speaker 1: a week? Yeah? All all yeah, full body, yes, sir.
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  Speaker 1: How long are those workouts how long? About a hour
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  Speaker 1: or so? You said your diet's gotten better with have
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  Speaker 1: you change something there? I'll just eat better. Yeah, you
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  Speaker 1: talked about wanting to maybe be a coach later in life.
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  Speaker 1: Curious like, what what advice or what coaching tests would
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  Speaker 1: you get sh to be and cover two uh.
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  Speaker 3: Through the year.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you know that's a that's a good question.
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  Speaker 2: I think the main thing is that if you're getting
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  Speaker 2: a lot of cover too, you should be to run
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  Speaker 2: the ball, should have the advantage looks in the ring game.
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  Speaker 1: I think that's the start.
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  Speaker 2: You want to try and get those guys to bring
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  Speaker 2: an eighth man into the box or seven man to
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  Speaker 2: the box, depend on your formation.
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  Speaker 1: But overall, you know, if you.
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  Speaker 2: Really just attack cover too, I mean there's gonna be
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  Speaker 2: you know four under or five under and they'll be
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  Speaker 2: you know, too deep. So you know, just do the
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  Speaker 2: math there, you attack the too deep and you try
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  Speaker 2: to get vertical on those guys and see how you
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  Speaker 2: can you know, create space that way.
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  Speaker 1: Uh.
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  Speaker 3: Did you see the the hit on Trevor Trevor Lawrence
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  Speaker 3: on the slide this week?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah? I did, Ken, What do your thought on that
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  Speaker 1: whole situation?
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  Speaker 3: Not maybe specifically Trevor, but just quarterback slide and the
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  Speaker 3: defenders who are like trying to make that half second,
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  Speaker 3: like late second you know, decisions all that.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: First of all, you know, hopefully Trevor bounces back and
• 12:44
  Speaker 2: it's is okay, But yeah, I mean it's football.
• 12:47
  Speaker 1: Those are tough things to see.
• 12:48
  Speaker 2: Obviously, you don't want anybody to, you know, be concussed
• 12:51
  Speaker 2: or to have an injury, and so, you know, I
• 12:53
  Speaker 2: feel for both sides. As a quarterback, you know, I
• 12:55
  Speaker 2: understand that you're trying to protect yourself and the guy
• 12:58
  Speaker 2: hits you and you know you're not expecting it. So
• 13:01
  Speaker 2: that's probably the most vulnerable you'll be when you're sliding.
• 13:03
  Speaker 2: You know you're not expecting to get hit. But also
• 13:05
  Speaker 2: for as a defender, I mean, you're trying to get
• 13:08
  Speaker 2: the guys to the ground.
• 13:09
  Speaker 1: It's a split second decision.
• 13:10
  Speaker 2: Like you said, a lot of guys play with a
• 13:12
  Speaker 2: lot of aggression, So to dial that back, we kind
• 13:15
  Speaker 2: of take away from the player.
• 13:17
  Speaker 1: Uh.
• 13:17
  Speaker 2: I think it's a great conversation to be had, but ultimately,
• 13:20
  Speaker 2: you know, you just don't want that type of stuff
• 13:21
  Speaker 2: to happen.
• 13:22
  Speaker 1: Do you guys talk about sliding and when to do
• 13:24
  Speaker 1: it and that.
• 13:25
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, try to slide after you get the first
• 13:28
  Speaker 2: down first of all. And then yeah, if you're gonna slide,
• 13:31
  Speaker 2: protect yourself, you know, if you gotta go cleats up
• 13:33
  Speaker 2: to try to keep a defender from you know, hitt
• 13:35
  Speaker 2: hitting you, and do that.
• 13:36
  Speaker 1: But the main thing.
• 13:37
  Speaker 2: Is to to slide in the right amount of time
• 13:39
  Speaker 2: and keep yourself buy the harms way. A lot of
• 13:41
  Speaker 2: people made, uh a lot of you not having a
• 13:43
  Speaker 2: win against the forty nine ers, but they will be
• 13:44
  Speaker 2: since you talk about the fact you had a lost
• 13:46
  Speaker 2: to the Cardinals.
• 13:47
  Speaker 1: You talked about this game against Arizona and the matchups
• 13:50
  Speaker 1: you've had over the years.
• 13:51
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think I said it then. I mean, it's
• 13:53
  Speaker 2: it's one game. We got one game to play. We're
• 13:56
  Speaker 2: not playing them all at at once.
• 13:57
  Speaker 1: And so.
• 13:59
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean that that stuff doesn't matter. It's it's
• 14:02
  Speaker 2: about this game and what we can do in this game.
• 14:04
  Speaker 2: Nothing we did in the past, it's gonna help us.
• 14:07
  Speaker 2: We got to go out there and execute for this one,
• 14:09
  Speaker 2: and uh, we got to go make the plays. You know,
• 14:11
  Speaker 2: they're gonna be at home. Like I said, it's a
• 14:14
  Speaker 2: big game for both of us and it should be fun, man,
• 14:16
  Speaker 2: I enjoy these type of games.
• 14:18
  Speaker 1: It's gonna be fun. You're gonna see the best of
• 14:19
  Speaker 1: both teams.
• 14:20
  Speaker 3: You've got pretty good fan turnouts in Arizona in the past,
• 14:22
  Speaker 3: So what is that like when you're on the road
• 14:24
  Speaker 3: and you can hear.
• 14:24
  Speaker 1: The see that's awesome, man.
• 14:26
  Speaker 2: We love we love our fan base, especially when when
• 14:29
  Speaker 2: they travel well, h seems like they take over the
• 14:31
  Speaker 2: opposing stadiums. And to be able to see them after
• 14:34
  Speaker 2: wins and to see them, you know, fired up and
• 14:36
  Speaker 2: just excited. Man, it means a lot to us at home,
• 14:39
  Speaker 2: but especially on the road as well. You know when
• 14:41
  Speaker 2: they go out and they travel and you know they
• 14:43
  Speaker 2: go and support us, you know, wherever we are.
• 14:47
  Speaker 1: Anything else, Thank you, guys,